Pokémon TCG Pocket was quick to remove the two cards from its latest set featuring art that appeared to be plagiarized, but the game has already been updated with new illustrations that you can ogle right now.
Attendees can play it there or at Microsoft’s booth. Now I’m really interested in watching Gamescom’s Opening Night Live show on August 19th.
Content Warning was one of the games featured during the Nintendo Indie World presentation, coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch 2 next year. In the game, you and three friends journey underwater to film spooky goings-on in order to go viral, but there’s a catch. You might die...horribly.
Content Warning blew up on Steam joining the likes of similar co-op chaos games including Phasmophobia and Lethal Company. The game will make extensive use of the Switch 2 gamechat features and I hope there’s a setting where, if you’re using a camera, you can put your friends actual faces on their avatars. We’ll see if my wish comes true when Content Warning launches next year.
During Nintendo’s Indie World showcase, we got a bunch of games coming out in the nearterm, like Herdling, out on August 21st. There are also games coming out in the nebulous future of 2026 like Neverway. But there were some games featured that are just coming out today like Is This Seat Taken?
Is This Seat Taken? is a cozy puzzle game where you arrange people according to their preferences. A set of clues tells you who likes what, and its your job to put them in the most appropriate place like the world’s most powerful wedding planner. And best of all, the game launches today on Nintendo Switch.
UFO 50 is the game that dares to ask, “What if there was one game, but in it, there were also 50 games?” And on top of those 50 individual games (that are not mere minigames) you got an overarching narrative about the lifecycle of a fictional console?
That’s UFO 50. Each game represents the journey of the hardware and you get to see how the technology and development skills develop over time just like they do across a real console’s lifetime. And what if I told you that you could play this collection of 50 games on the Switch today? Because you can.
In the thick of the Indie World presentation and I can’t help but be powerfully intrigued by Well Dweller. Well Dweller, created by the developer of Crypt Custodian and Islets, is a metroidvania (or search action game, if you like) with an interesting artstyle.
You play as a bird with a matchstick, sent out to save her species from an evil and queen and seeing all the platforming and progression unlocking weapons, I think this is the kind of game I’m looking for right now. But unfortunately, I’ll have to wait for its release sometime next year.
During the Nintendo Indie World showcase, Mina The Hollower was announced for the Nintendo Switch. Earlier this year the game got a notoriety boost with a demo being featured during Steam Next Fest. And the retro-style, A Link To The Past-looking game featuring a very cute sword-swinging mouse also has a demo out now on the Switch. Not too long to wait now, Mina the Hollower comes out on Switch and PC October 31st.
Looking at Kirby makes me happy, and with this new trailer for — and brace yourself it’s a doozy of a name — Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World, I couldn’t be happier. My favorite pink blobby boy is getting some new adventures with the game’s starry stages that let Kirby explore previously blocked off areas.
He’ll also get new mouthful mode shapes including a spring that lets him jump, a gear mode that lets him scale walls, and a sign shape that doesn’t advertise his favorite foods, but lets him slide around on snow and other flat surfaces.
Nintendo has some more games to show us. After the company’s Partner Direct showcase last week, Nintendo has announced yet another showcase, this time an Indie World presentation, for Thursday, August 7th, at 9AM ET on YouTube. The presentation will be 15 minutes long which is plenty of time to share at least one new trailer for Silksong.
You can now tune out to 75 chill tracks from the games which always prioritized fun and unique flying challenges over being truly accurate flight simulators. There are 21 tracks and 19 minutes of music from the original Super Nintendo version of the game, 30 tracks/46 minutes from Pilotwings 64 on the N64, and 24 tracks/36 minutes from Pilotwings Resort which was the last game in the series launching on the Nintendo 3DS in 2011.
Nintendo has finally let us know how successful the Switch 2 launch has been. In it’s most recent quarterly earnings report, Nintendo shared that the Switch 2 has sold 5.82 million units since its launch on June 5th.
On top of that, it also reported that it moved 5.63 million units of Mario Kart World which includes copies that were bundled with the Switch 2. Which means that all but about 200,000 of the Switch 2s out there have Mario Kart World installed and ready to go.
[nintendo.co.jp]
